Nutrient loss has continued since that study. More recent research has documented the declining nutrient value in some staple crops due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels; a 2018 study that tested rice found that higher CO2 levels reduced its protein, iron and zinc content.

Cognitive performance is the tip of the melting iceberg. You may have also noticed, for example, your own feelings of aggression on hotter days. You and everyone else – and animals, too. Black widow spiders tend more quickly toward sibling cannibalism in the heat. Rhesus monkeys start more fights with one another. Baseball pitchers are more likely to intentionally hit batters with their pitches as temperatures rise. US Postal Service workers experience roughly 5% more incidents of harassment and discrimination on days above 32C, relative to temperate days.

Warm weather and rising demand have sapped up the syrup supply, but producers say not to panic.

Drastic polar ice melt is slowing Earth’s rotation, counteracting a speedup from the planet’s liquid outer core. The upshot is that we might need to subtract a leap second for the first time ever within the decade

Why wouldn’t Biden want to enlist one of the most talented public speakers in either party, somebody who ran for the GOP nomination in no small part to be a rhetorical battering ram against Trump? A Caribbean, or even Mediterranean, ambassadorship would be a small price to pay for campaign services rendered.

Scientists have scarcely begun studying pristine material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission, but have already found several surprises

Unpaid bills, bungled contracts and a disastrous meeting with Nvidia's kingmaker CEO. Inside the stunning downfall of Emad Mostaque.

Former President Donald Trump appeared onstage at a Mar-a-Lago event with filmmaker and QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Smith and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. One of the films screened at the event, which was hosted by Flynn’s America’s Future, pushed the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

People send me tapes from all over. I have copies from Germany and Japan

Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.

Evolv, which will be used by the NYC subway, is under investigation by the FTC and SEC, and also had to retract a claim that the UK government validated its product.

The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers’ tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income

A Salt Lake City man was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder Monday after prosecutors say he crashed his car into six female pedestrians — targeted at random — over the last seven months.

An AP and PBS "Frontline" investigation documenting police use of force. Those who died were of all walks of life and races, though the toll disproportionately hit Black people. The oldest was 95. The youngest was just 15. Many were experiencing a mental health or drug crisis.

A judge ruled that Georgia Republican Party Vice Chairman Brian K. Pritchard voted illegally nine times while serving a felony sentence for check forgery.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive, Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of won. He took Twitter private, turning it into his own private narcissism hole — an increasingly-fetid swamp full of credulous goons where he's driving out most of the people who hate him.

A hateful conspiracy theory that also tells us something about the nature of participatory online “detective” work.

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

The rightwing social network’s flotation, supported by fans of the ex-president, makes it look like part of the ‘meme stock’ phenomenon